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Old 27-09-2011
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my friend johns just shown me his brand new traxxas summit vxl and was wondering if i new anywhere to race it im not to shaw will he be able to race it at our club or is it the wrong type of vehicle ?
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Can see fair few incidents racing that with buggies
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stick him in with the touring cars
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Not at our club lol, closest place would be A1 Racing.
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Isn't it 1/16th though? I used to race my shark in with the buggies with minimal incident.
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Oh so it is!, then its pretty much the same size as a short course?.
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Haha I thought they were savage size lol
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Shorter than a madrat and about 15mm wider. I would be interested to see it go round a corner with that ground clearence though

Jamie assuming it is the 1/16th one, which I am pretty sure it is then yeah it can be used down the club.
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it certainly didn't look 1/16th lol it was up to my knees i actually think my mates got the 1/10th cos no way was it a 1/16th and lets put it this way im not small by any means but it pulled me along my front room carpet on my belle so that was impressive ill post a video later
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check this link out what an idiot putting that much power in a kinex set common even i wouldn't go that far
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check this link out what an idiot putting that much power in a kinex set common even i wouldn't go that far http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEiHdT1nb0g
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Ok I am going to regret ever asking this question, but why were you pulling yourself along your carpet on your stomach with an rc car?
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it certainly didn't look 1/16th lol it was up to my knees i actually think my mates got the 1/10th cos no way was it a 1/16th and lets put it this way im not small by any means but it pulled me along my front room carpet on my belle so that was impressive ill post a video later
They can put your mates truck and Chris brown's E revo in a seperate heat .
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check this link out what an idiot putting that much power in a kinex set common even i wouldn't go that far http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEiHdT1nb0g
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If its up to your knees then it is definatly to big. Be cool to see it over the summer though.
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cod piece are you the guy everyone calls man love ? i saw a video of some kid getting dragged by a summit so i thought me and my mate can do one better than this and i decided to put my torso on the line and my god it was powerful didn't even struggle to pull me and with a top speed of a very nippy 35-40mph i thought it is the best truck ive seen for a long while
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cod piece are you the guy everyone calls man love ? i saw a video of some kid getting dragged by a summit so i thought me and my mate can do one better than this and i decided to put my torso on the line and my god it was powerful didn't even struggle to pull me and with a top speed of a very nippy 35-40mph i thought it is the best truck ive seen for a long while

this has got to be the best post iv read in a long time.. ......apart from the first bit,its just so wrong
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cod piece are you the guy everyone calls man love ? i saw a video of some kid getting dragged by a summit so i thought me and my mate can do one better than this and i decided to put my torso on the line and my god it was powerful didn't even struggle to pull me and with a top speed of a very nippy 35-40mph i thought it is the best truck ive seen for a long while
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this has got to be the best post iv read in a long time.. ......apart from the first bit,its just so wrong

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